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Prague Castle.<\/p><\/div>\n

Jo\u017ee Ple\u010dnik (1872 – 1957) was a Slovene architect who had a major impact on the modern identity of these beautiful central European cities. Join Austrian and Slovenian capitals at celebration of the 145th anniversary of Birth of this influential and important city planner.<\/p>\n

Prague<\/strong><\/p>\n

Czech president Masaryk entrusted the modification of the Prague Castle to Jo\u017ee Ple\u010dnik, who then remained the Prague Castle architect until 1934. Cooperation between Masaryk and Ple\u010dnik resulted in a number of modifications to the interiors and exteriors of Prague Castle.<\/p>\n

One remarkable work of Ple\u010dnik\u2019s is the Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord in Vinohrady, the most beautiful modern church in Prague, reminiscent of the mystical structures of Ancient Egypt. The broad, 42 m high bell-tower, with its copper dome and crucifix, can be seen in the Prague panorama from as far away as Prague Castle.<\/p>\n

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Vienna<\/strong><\/p>\n

From 1900 through 1910 Ple\u010dnik practiced architecture in Vienna, completing projects such as the Langer House and the Zacherl apartment block. Ple\u010dnik’s Church of the Holy Spirit is remarkable for its innovative use of poured-in-place concrete as both structure and exterior surface, and also for its abstracted classical form language. Most radical is the church’s crypt, with its slender concrete columns and angular, cubist capitals and bases.<\/p>\n

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Plecnik’s Church of the Holy Spirit, Vienna.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ljubljana<\/strong><\/p>\n

Visit the renovated Ple\u010dnik House as the starting point of discovering Ple\u010dnik’s hometown. The famous architect tried to model Ljubljana on ancient Athens. The multitude of his creations in the city, referred to as a whole as “Ple\u010dnik’s Ljubljana”, is considered to be one of the 20th century’s most important total works of art. He is also a founding member of the Ljubljana School of Architecture.<\/p>\n

In 2017, the Ple\u010dnik Year, Ljubljana commemorates two anniversaries that marked the life of the architect Jo\u017ee Ple\u010dnik: the 60th anniversary of his death (7 January 1957) and the 145th anniversary of his birth (23 January 1872).<\/p>\n

The timeless, humanistic architecture of Jo\u017ee Ple\u010dnik in Ljubljana and Prague become part of UNESCO Tentative List (linkto: http:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/en\/tentativelists\/5968\/<\/a>). “During the crisis in modern urban planning, we discovered anew the humanistic value of Ple\u010dnik\u2019s public spaces, his sensibility to the contexts and his ability to recognise the importance of landscape planning within towns, which preceded the Historic Urban Landscape approach to historic towns.”<\/p>\n

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Ple\u010dnik’s tromostovje – triple bridge in Ljubljana, Slovenia.<\/p><\/div>\n

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